We are delighted to be returning to New York city for the biggest comic and TV convention in the USA New York Comic Con 2015. The four day event runs from Thursday the 7th to Sunday the 10th of October in the Javits Convention Center. The annual event is in it’s 10th year this year and attracted over 150,000 attendees in 2014 over 20,000 more than San Diego Comic Con which caps it’s attendance at 130,000. There are many many events, signings, screenings, games and comic book announcements to keep those of us going to the event excited over the four days. Here’s are our New York Comic Con 2015 must see DC Events.

WBTV Preview Night Screenings – Thursday the 8th OctoberReturning for a third year the WBTV screening event was host to the Constantine in 2014 and excellent pilot for a show that had an untimely end mid season. For the new season we will get to see the premiere of the new CBS TV show Supergirl starring Melissa Benoist, Mehcad Brooks and Calista Flockhart in the big budget show from the creators of the Flash and Arrow. We’ve heard great things about the show so far so we’re excited to see the pilot. Also at the screening night will be a sneak peak at DC’s Legends of Tomorrow another spin-off of Arrow and Flash featuring both villains and heroes from those to shows as time-traveling crime fighters. The premise seems barmy so we’re looking forward to see how the less serious side of the DC universe will be on show when it premieres in 2016. Check out the trailers below.

Since we’re in New York for the full event we’ll be going out for drinks in New York city on Saturday night. If you want to come by and say hi we’ll be at the Tír na Nóg Irish bar a few blocks from the Javitts Centre. Click here for directions.

Sunday is again Gotham day at NYCC as we hook up with all the other fans in the main hall to check out the GOTHAM Panel and screening. We’ll also get in line to meet the Gotham cast at the signing event; and Gotham TV Podcast will bring you some exclusive interviews with Ben McKenzie, Corey Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, James Frain and others from the Gotham cast interviews at the Javits Center.

There will also be a huge host of other Warner Bros. and DC inspired screenings and panels at at the Super Sunday event with another chance to see the Supergirl and DC Legends of Tomorrow previews.

And finally as always there will be surprises

New York Comic Con is always known for it’s surprises. In 2014 George Clooney showed up at the Tomorrowland panel while on his honeymoon to give an apology to Batman fans for “killing the franchise”. There are rumours that there will be a special sneak peek at the upcoming Batman V Superman at this years event thanks to a comment by a leading Warner Brothers executive. Only time will tell but watch this space.

We’re looking forward to seeing all the attendees there but we will be podcasting after the event to discuss everything we saw there and hopefully some exclusive information that you’ll enjoy as much as we will.

We’ll talk to you soon, but in the meantime check out our Gotham Season two interview with Drew Powell, Gotham’s Butch Gilzean.

Derek and John

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New York Comic Con 2014 (NYCC) is the second largest of the US comic conventions. The event takes place at The Javits Center in Hell’s Kitchen New York from 9th to 12th October. The majority of the event is more focused on comics than it’s West Coast counterpart in San Diego and with increasing TV and movie elements NYCC has getting bigger and more popular each year whilst retaining its focus on comics and the comic industry. This years event being the most popular to date as four-day tickets sold out in 40 minutes..The Senior Vice President of event organisers ReedPop Lance Fensterman sent an open letter to fans explaining how big the event is getting with the example that in 2013 four day tickets for the event took 8 weeks to sell out. It’s a really exciting event with a big line up of Comic, animation and TV panels.

Gotham TV Podcast will be in New York from 5th to 14th October and we’ll be covering as many of the events as we possibly can. The big event for us of course is the Gotham panel on Sunday 12th October. Currently scheduled as a Special Video Presentation and Q&A with many of the cast attending this home town event at 1.15 pm EST in the main hall. Confirmed for the event are Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards,Sean Pertwee and Danny Cannon. There will be a special video presentation as Gotham has already completed filming the first half of Season 1, we’re hopeful that there will be lots of exclusive footage. We’ll be queueing to get all the news directly from the event about our favourite new show. We might even get to meet a few special guests while we’re there.

DC and Warner Brothers are also well represented at the event with a panel, Q & A and screening of the pilot for the dark new DC show Constantine. We’re almost as excited for Constantine as we for Gotham and look forward to seeing cast members Matt Ryan (John Constantine) and Angélica Celaya (Zed) along with Executive Producer David S. Goyer taking the stage on Saturday 11th October.

Steven Amell (Oliver Queen on Arrow) will be appearing at the event for all four days, while there is no Arrow or Flash panel scheduled the premiere for both shows will be presented..

There are also many notable DC Comics events and guests over the four day event. The many Batman related comic events range from current Batman dynamic duo, writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo to the artist of the upcoming Gotham by Midnight regular comic series, Ben Templesmith. There will also be a number of events to celebrate Batman 75.

The upcoming movie Birdman, featuring former Batman Michael Keaton and former Hulk actor Edward Norton will also be a highlight of the show. The movie about a former superhero movie actor who has fallen on hard times is definitely relevant to our interests.

New York Comic Con has had a huge boost from genre TV with many describing the event as “the Con that Walking Dead built” due to the recurring appearance of cast and crew of the hugely successful show each year since it began. This year is no exception with the Walking Dead once again taking the prime Saturday night at 6pm spot. Most of the major cast including Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, Steven Yeun and Norman Reedus are slated to appear. But that’s not the only big comic related TV event happening at NYCC 2014.

Where best for Marvel and Netflix to show off the upcoming TV show Daredevil than in his hometown of Hell’s Kitchen New York at the NYCC in the prime slot leading into the Walking Dead panel on Saturday the 10th of October. This will be the first of four shows that Marvel and Netflix are working together including Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Iron First. The four more grounded Marvel properties are due to lead into one combined mini-series called The Defenders. We’re very excited to see the cast on stage together for the first time. Given that the show has been filming in New York for the last few months there might even be some footage of the upcoming show screened.

Marvel TV is well represented at the event with a panel for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. taking the prime slot on Friday the 10th of October. They had a smaller panel with Scottish actor Ian DeCastacker (Fitz) and English Actress Elizabeth Henstridge (Simmons) taking the stage along with Jeph Loeb in 2013. It’s hoped that there will be a full cast panel there to discuss the show.

There will be loads of other exciting stuff at the show from Cosplay to exclusive artwork, statues and comics. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook and Fliker where we’ll share our unique take on the event.

Gotham episode 3 “Balloon-man” airs on Fox on the 6th of October and the pilot is due for its UK TV premiere on Channel 5 on Monday the 13th of October.

A UK broadcaster for the hotly anticipated Constantine has yet to be announced. The show premieres in the US on October 24th.

Arrow will return to Sky One in October with Flash also premiering on Sky One in the same month.

The comic series Gotham By Midnight by Ben Templesmith is due to come out in November 2014

Walking Dead Season 5 will premiere in the US on Sunday the 12th and Ireland and the UK on Fox on Monday the 13th

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While we wait for the big day of Comic Con to begin here’s a recap of all the DC Connected Universe news from Day 2 of San Diego Comic Con.

Arrow Season 3 Panel and Trailer

The Comic Con panel featured a plethera of guests from the show including Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, John Barrowman, Willa Holland, Paul Blackthorne, Colton Haynes and executive producers Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kriesberg and Greg Berlanti. Stephen Amell discusses the promise he made to the fans that “they’d all work hard to ensure the show doesn’t suck” to which an audience member responded “Mission accomplished”. Willa Holland chats about the transformation of her character Thea from Season One’s spoiled little rich girl to her kick ass turn at the end of Season Two. John Barrowman discusses his character Malcolm Merlyn’s return to the show. The set up for Season 3 was decided upon before writing began for Season 2. This season will be all about “At what price is victory?” Kriesberg also compared the casting of Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/The Atom to the introduction of fan favourite Faith in season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, saying it’s a game changer.

Andrew Kriesberg also confirmed that Flash Episode 8 and Arrow Episode 8 will feature the first two hour cross over on the TV shows but there will be another cross over earlier in the series when Felicity pops over to visit the Flash in Central City for episode 4.

Watch the trailer for Season 3 below including a big spoiler for our favourite geeky computer hacker…

iZombie panel discuss the premise of the show

CW’s mid-season series iZombie also debuted at SDCC 2014 (unfortunately iZombie will not be included in the Saturday WB/DC TV event), with details from executive producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright (both of Veronica Mars) on the premise of the show that sees Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) turn into a zombie. Her Zombie status is not known to everyone and she only eats the brains (with hot sauce) of people who are already dead. To satisfy her lust for brains she gets a job at the city morgue where she can dine on the brains of those people admitted. Liv’s new diet allows her to experience “visions” of the corpse’s memories and clues as to how they were killed.This take on zombies from the Vertigo imprint will be lighter in tone and looks set to draw out the funnier and comedic moments of zombies over the series whilst set against other procedural elements from the morgue.

Scott Snyder wins an Eisner award

Current Batman writer Scott Snyder won the Eisner award for Best Limited series for another of his books The Wake. Sean Murphy also won Best Penciler for the excellent comic series.

Next up it’s the big one the Warner Bros. Pictures panel and the WB TV and DC Entertainment three hour extravaganza. This features Stephen Amell on presenting duties and the first public premiere of the Gotham Pilot the cast are on their way.

We’ll be recording a podcast on all the news out of the panels and San Diego Comic Con 2014 for release next week.

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The first day of San Diego Comic Con has ended. A relatively quiet day for Gotham related news but there was a loads of Batman news on show throughout the day. We expect lots of DC connected universe news over the rest of the weekend.

New Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham trailer and Demo

As we shared yesterday there was a new trailer for the brilliant looking Lego Batman 3. IGN also had a play-though with the developers TT Games of the Batman 66 themed level featuring voice over from Adam West, the original music from the show and all the crazy 60s gadgets that you know and love. See the play-through below.

Batman ’66 on Blu-Ray

Speaking of Adam West. He joined Julie Newmar (Catwoman) and Burt Ward were to discuss details of the first release of the complete Batman ’66 series on DVD and Blu-Ray. Coming on the 11th of November to the US the full box set contains all 120 episodes of the genre defining 60s show with a Batmobile replica hot wheels car and tonnes of special features. We’ll be pre-ordering this one.

Spotlight on Scott Snyder

Given his current work on Batman: The New52! series, Scott Snyder writer of Batman Zero Year, Superman Unchained and American Vampire (and the upcoming title Wytches for Image Comics) is an important figure right now for DC and for the Batman universe. In this panel Scott Snyder provides a great insight in to his work and the craft of comic writing. The “Spotlight” panel explores topics such as why he chose the Riddler as the principal villain for “Batman: Zero Year” and what it was like and how prepared he was to write Batman after landing the job with DC. Scott Snyder also talks about his experiences pitching his writing, such as American Vampire, to publishers and the upcoming projects Wytches and Batman: Endgame. The panel transcript can be found in full via Newsarama.

Spotlight on Bill Finger

Featuring members of Bill Finger’s family this panel dealt with the legacy left behind by Bill’s contribution to the creation of Gotham city and The Bat-Man in 1959. It’s unlikely the Dark Knight we know and love today would have existed without Mr. Finger’s contribution, so it was great to see his name highlighted on this weeks free reprint of Detective Comics #27. You can read a recap of the panel via comicsbeat.com

Gotham Zip-Lining, Trams and Taxis disguised as G.C.P.D. cars.

Opened by Kevin Faulconer, the Mayor of San Diego, the Gotham Zip-Line allows fans to glide past a backdrop of Gotham City. Looks like great fun there’s a video of the Gotham Zip-line below. There are also Gotham Trams operating on the route to the convention center and if you want to use a taxi to get around and order through the Uber app you can get picked up by a Gotham City Police Department car.

New Ben Affleck Batman image

At the DC entertainment both they had created a rather large surprise for fans in the Batman 75 montage wall. In amongst a vast number of images of batman throughout the years they had included a head shot of Ben Affleck in the cowl from the upcoming movie Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. He looks a little like most of the attendees at comic con will look after a weekend of camping out for Hall H but still very cool.

With three more days of fun in San Diego, including panels for Gotham, Arrow, Flash, Constantine and Warner Bros. Pictures we’ll have loads more to discuss and share. We’ll do a full recap at the end of SDCC 2014 on our podcast.

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Dublin Comic Con (DCC) 2014 is returning on 9th and 10th August at the National Show Centre in Swords. A current list of guests attending is available here with more to be added shortly.

We’re really looking forward to the event, in particular for fans of Gotham and the wider Batman and DC universe the Batman himself is attending! Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman, will attend during the weekend. It is difficult to express the level of involvement and influence that Kevin Conroy has had over the last 14 years or more voicing Batman. He is much beloved by fans of the many classic animated Batman features and series and of course the Rocksteady Arkham games that he has been involved in. To name a few Kevin Conroy has been in such classics as Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

Tickets are now on sale online and can be purchased here. The VIP tickets seem to sold out already. Other than the ‘General entry’ tickets, there are also “Family entry” and “Weekend entry” tickets available to buy online and it is free entry to children 3 years of age or under.

#GothamTVPodcast #Gotham #Batman75 #DCC #DublinComicCon

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As part of Batman’s 75th anniversary celebration a live discussion panel will be taking place at the Paley Center looking at the impact of the Batman since his creation by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939 for Detective Comics.

For those of you not lucky enough to get tickets for the event the discussion will also stream live today (5th May 2014) from the Paley Center at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT in the USA or 11:30pm GMT (Dublin, London). To join the event click here and follow the links to live stream event.

We watched the Batman 75 panel at WonderCon earlier this year and it was really interesting with lots of thoughts and ideas about Batman past, present and future as well as personal views of the Dark Knight and what he means to them and also more widely to modern culture. We think this panel will also be well worth checking out.

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Hot on the heels of Bruce Timm’s Batman animated short “Strange Days” which we discussed in our most recent podcast. Darwyn Cooke (Batman Beyond Animated, Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1-6 Writer and artist.) has released his short tribute to #Batman75. Simply titled “Darwyn Cooke’s Batman Beyond it is available to watch on Yahoo movies now.

The 1 minute clip shows Terry McGinnis and our elder Bruce Wayne of Batman Beyond teaming up against a very recognisable foe. There are some great nods to the many versions of Batman that have existed in animated and live action form over his 75 year history. It really made us want to watch a new animated series. Check it out at https://movies.yahoo.com/video/batman-beyond-short-film-192211473.html

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Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) this year is rapidly approaching and we’re getting excited. FCBD occurs on the first Saturday in May each year and will take place on Saturday 3rd May this year. More information can be found at the FCBD website.

Participating comic book shops across Ireland, the UK, North America and around the world will give away certain comic books absolutely free to anyone who comes into their stores. Amongst some of the titles available this year include DC’s The New 52 Futures End (special edition), a 2000 AD Special issue, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and independent titles such as Entropy. A full list of the free comic books available on 3rd May 2014 can be found here.

We can’t wait to support our local comic store and see which titles they’ll be giving away. So head on down to your local store and see if they are getting involved its a great way to explore new titles or to introduce someone new to comics.

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For all our followers in Ireland, MCM’s Ireland Comic Con is coming to Dublin’s RDS next weekend (12-13 April 2014). We’re really looking forward to the event and can’t wait to head over to the RDS to see amongst other Warwick Davis of Star Wars, Willow and Harry Potter fame and also TV’s Life’s Too Short and An Idiot Abroad will be in attendance on the Sunday.

Tickets are now on sale for “Priority Entry” via the online store here. ‘General entry’ tickets are only available to buy when you arrive at the event.

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Issue #27 of Detective Comics saw the creation of the Batman published 75 years ago and aren’t we lucky. The creation of the Batman by Bob Kane and his development by Bill Finger and others, notably Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo but also many more artists, inkers, pencillers and writers, have brought a truly iconic figure to the world of comics that has left a lasting impact in the imaginations of many many people.